Does the share of religious ingroup members affect how important religion is to adolescents? Applying Optimal Distinctiveness Theory to four European countries


Leszczensky, Lars ; Flache, Andreas ; Sauter, Lisa



DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2019.1620419
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/136918...
Weitere URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333797286...
Dokumenttyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Titel einer Zeitschrift oder einer Reihe: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies : JEMS
Band/Volume: 46
Heft/Issue: 17
Seitenbereich: 3703-3721
Ort der Veröffentlichung: Abingdon
Verlag: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
ISSN: 1369-183X , 1469-9451
Sprache der Veröffentlichung: Englisch
Einrichtung: Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > MZES - Arbeitsbereich A
Fachgebiet: 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Abstract: European youth attend classrooms that are religiously diverse, with the importance of religion differing between ethno-religious groups. While religion no longer matters much to many native-origin Christian youth, it is important to many of their immigrant-origin Christian and, especially, Muslim peers. Considering religion as a source of adolescents’ social identity, we examine how religious classroom composition relates to the importance adolescents attach to religion. Optimal Distinctiveness Theory suggests a curvilinear relation, because a group has to be large enough to satisfy the need of belonging but small enough to satisfy the need for differentiation. Using large-scale survey data for 15-year old adolescents from four European countries, we find that this inverted U-shaped relation holds for immigrant-origin Muslim but not for native- and immigrant-origin Christian youth. Instead, for Christian youth religion was more important in classrooms with higher shares of Muslim classmates, thus lending credence to arguments derived from threat theory.




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